Mass incarceration rates in the U.S. have led a University of Minnesota law professor to publish a 10-step blueprint to reforming sentencing laws and decreasing the imprisonment population.

The new report shows that the U.S. imprisons seven to 10 times more of its citizens than other developed western-hemisphere countries, with many states putting more money into prisons than higher education.

Michael Tonry, the author of the study, characterized U.S. incarceration rates as "breathtakingly cruel." He said incarceration has severe impacts on prisoners, their families and the communities they come from, and that it’s also costing taxpayers a lot of money.

For the second day in a row, about 2,000 pro-labor activists are rallying inside and outside of the Capitol building in Madison to decry a right-to-work bill that's now being taken up by the state Senate for debate.

About a dozen people have been removed from the public gallery of the Wisconsin state Senate for disrupting debate during a right-to-work bill. Protesters spoke out at the beginning of the debate Wednesday afternoon and have sporadically interrupted debate throughout the afternoon. The first disruptions came during the opening comments...

A wildlife advocacy group just released the documentary "Political Predator." We'll get the group's take on how the wolf hunt of recent years came to be and how wolves in Wisconsin may have been politicized over the years.